The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched a campaign to provide free health-care facilities to at least one million poor children in several countries including India and Pakistan. One million poor ill children will be given a new lease of life under the mission launched in Abu Dhabi by Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in the Western Region and President of the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA). Team leader of the Emirates Global Humanitarian Mobile Hospital (Elaj) Khadem Al Darie said, "The mission is to promote the culture of giving and social volunteering through activation of local and international programmes with the aim of easing suffering of poor patients".